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Around this time of the year, it’s crunch time to meet all the standards. With Earth Day just around the corner, I have a lot of standards I need to meet and that I’ve been holding onto until the big day came around. Yes, we have been learning here and there from our Biomes of the World unit but Earth Day sums up a lot of learning goals in my classroom!
We started with a quick discussion on what is Earth Day and the importance of it. My kiddos worked at their table group to brainstorm a few ideas before we did a class share-out. Pretty informal because I wanted to get to the planting!
They worked collaboratively (thank you, GLAD!) on planting the seeds in their table group pots. Now each table group has a beautiful pot of… dirt! Germination should hopefully happen within the next week so we can begin working on collecting plant data before the big test. Every year I use Kelly from Appleslices Plant Power activity to collect our data during the growth of their plants. It’s a perfect activity to practicing data collection and graphing.
While our plants our growing, we go back to our standards and our first conversations to build 10 ways to save the earth using The Happy Earth Book. I have them discuss and come up with 10 ways with their groups. Students have the choice to work on all 10 together, or split it up to be efficient. This not only meets our science standards but also hits a few ELA ones! Loving using these writing craftivities to enhance our lessons and reflect on all of studying of our earth.
- Mrs. Terhune’s Earth Day Poster
- I Love My Earth Writing & Picture from Teacher Idea Factory
- Earth Acrostic Poem from Lisa Lilienthal
- Our Earth Day Pledge
- Ways to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle from Scholastic
- Earth Day Writing & Art Freebie from Easy Teaching Tools
- Earth Day is Everyday from Proud to be Primary
- Lorax Project from Easy Teaching Tools
- Earth Day Resources from Everything Just So
Thank you so much for all of the great ideas! I love the idea of planting seeds in honor of Earth Day. Thanks for sharing!
You're welcome! I hope you are able to use some of them! :]
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I just discovered Class Dojo a few months ago and am going to be implementing it in my classroom in the fall. I LOVED your ideas and will be incorporating some of them in my classroom! The pack would help me get a head start on my planning for the fall.